The M2 sets new standards for media computing by offering two internal hard drives as standard for a total of 160 GB of storage. These 7,200 rpm hard disk drives deliver outstanding desktop performance and long term reliability. These drive are fast enough to record many tracks of audio and even handle video track overlays. This is state of the art storage technology for notebooks.
- Included are:
- HD1: 60GB ATA-100 7200rpm [Operating System, Applications, Libraries]
- HD2: 60GB ATA-100 7200rpm [Audio files, Libraries]
We chose the highest performing note book drives on the market because our goal was to deliver desktop performance in a laptop. Preserving battery life was not a priority.
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Hitachi Leading-edge technology
The Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 is a 9.5mm high, 7200 RPM, 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive. The Travelstar 7K60 is the 28th generation addition of a long heritage of Travelstar mobile drives.
Designed with combined technology including; Antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) technology, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor technology, Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) heads, load/unload head technology, Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life ExtenderTM (ABLE) 3.0 and an ATA/100 interface provides for a cutting-edge design. The Travelstar 7K60 pushes performance, capacity, power management, and exceptional quietness to provide a quality, high-performance mobile hard disk drive for today’s demanding notebook and beyond systems.
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New Areal Density Technology Advancements
Antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media technology is incorporated into the Travelstar 7K60 to achieve an areal density of up to 50Gbits/sq.inch to be written on each disk. This feat is achieved by adding another layer or “pixie dust” - or essentially an additional layer of ruthenium/magnetic layer to create a five-layer sandwich called laminated “pixie-dust”. These additional layers bring even higher thermal stability to the media, allowing data recording at ultra-high densities while continuing to maintain dataintegrity.
One of the key contributors to achieving demanding areal density requirements has been the reduction of the size of the slider by 3x, and the mass of the slider by over 30x (from 1980 - 2002). Introducing the industry-leading Femto Slider in the Travelstar 7K60, a reduced slider in both size and mass reduction. Hitachi GST is the first drive maker to incorporate the new Femto slider product in its hard disk drives.
Implementing the new Femto Slider has resulted in; improved shock resistance, reduced power consumption and improved disk storage capacity. The reduced slider size improves the response of the slider to disk waviness, thus reducing the flying height variation of the slider in the disk drive. These advantages coupled with an integrated slider-suspension design, have been instrumental to achieving a 10x reduction in flying height over this same period.
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Performance and reliability
The Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 series of hard disk drives utilizes proven storage technologies such as TrueTrack Servo, Drive Fitness TestTM (DFT), Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) to help maintain high-performance and fast seek times at high environment temperatures.
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HARD DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS
| Configuration | |||
| Interface | ATA-6 | ||
| Capacity | 60 GB | ||
| Sector size | 512 bytes | ||
| Recording zones | 16 | ||
| Data heads | 4 | ||
| Disks | 2 | ||
| Max. areal density | 50 Gbits/sq.inch | ||
| Performance | |||
| Data buffer | 8MB | ||
| Rotational speed | 7,200 rpm | ||
| Latency (average) | 4.2 ms | ||
| Max. media transfer rate | 518 Mbits/sec | ||
| Max. interface transfer rate | 100MB/sec Ultra DMA mode-5 | ||
| 16.6MB/sec PIO mode-4 | |||
| SEEK TIME | |||
| Average (typical) | 10 ms | ||
| Track to track (typical) | 1.0 ms | ||
| Full stroke (typical) | 18 ms | ||
| Reliability | |||
| Error rate (non-recoverable) | < 1 per 1013 bits transferred | ||
| Load/unload cycle | 300,000 | ||
| Power | |||
| Requirement | +5VDC(±5%) | ||
| DISSAPATION | (typical) | ||
| Startup (max. peak) | 5.5 W | ||
| Seek (average) | 2.6 W | ||
| Read (average) | 2.5 W | ||
| Write (average) | 2.5 W | ||
| Performance idle (average) | 2.0 W | ||
| Active idle (average) | 1.3 W | ||
| Low power idle (average) | 0.85 W | ||
| Standby (average) | 0.25 W | ||
| Sleep | 0.1 W | ||
| Power consumption efficiency | 0.014 (watts/GB) | ||
| Physical size | |||
| Height | 9.5 mm | ||
| Width | 70 mm | ||
| Depth | 100 mm | ||
| Weight | 115 g | ||
| Environmental characteristics | |||
| OPERATING | |||
| Ambient temperature | 5° to 55° C | ||
| Relative humidity | 8% - 90% (non-condensing) | ||
| Maximum wet bulb | 29.4° C (non-condensing) | ||
| Shock | 200G/2ms (half sine wave) | ||
| VIBRATION | |||
| Random | 0.67G (5 - 500Hz) (RMS) | ||
| Sine wave | 1.0G (5 - 500Hz) | ||
| NON-OPERATING | |||
| Ambient temp | -40° to 65° C | ||
| Relative humidity | 5% - 95% (non-condensing) | ||
| Maximum wet bulb | 40° C (non-condensing) | ||
| Shock | 1,000G/1ms (half sine wave) | ||
| Vibration | 5.0G (22 - 500Hz) (sine wave) | ||
| Acoustics (A-Weighted Sound Power (Bels)) | |||
| Idle (typical) | 2.7 | ||
| Op (typical) | 3.3 | ||
| Idle (maximum) | 3.0 | ||
| Op (maximum) | 3.5 | ||
Two Fujitsu Travelstar - 7,200rpm, 60GB screamers come standard.